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aroaessidhe · 6 months
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2023 reads
The Spider And Her Demons
YA Australian urban fantasy/horror
about a Malaysian-Chinese girl who’s half spider-demon, just trying to keep her head down and survive high school
when she accidentally kills and eats a man in front of the most popular girl at school, they strike up a strange friendship and she starts to learn more about herself and the supernatural world
aroacespec/sapphic ish
#The Spider And Her Demons#Sydney Khoo#loveozya#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#you give me a teenage girl with giant hair spider legs who scuttles across her bedroom wall on page 3#and then eats a man and i am already sold.#also aus books are always so familiar compared to US books :)#and yes sexuality stuff is ambiguous but basically: a bunch of discussion on relationship hierachies (ie friendship equally/more important)#themes of feeling unlovable bc you're different and different forms of love#multiple times the MC says she has no interest in dating or relationships and also is touch (and maybe sex) repulsed#- but of course that Also has to do with the whole Being A Monster thing#and it definitely shows some kind of attraction to dior - ie looking at her lips/bare skin; blushing; etc#and ends on sort of hand kiss / 'is this something??' vibes#I asked the author and they said they see them as QPR / platonic soulmates but are not at the point where they would know what to call it#which makes total sense to me!#the part of me who wants more obvious aroace YA wishes it was a little more specific#but also I DO love ambiguity and I think it wouldn't be true to the characters#who are clearly not even ready to start figuring that stuff out.#and also. aroacespec sapphics is like. also something i want#also like. I think it's reductive to assume just because 'looks at lips' is a common allo attraction trope....doesn't necessarily mean#it has to be that. yknow.#anyway. i loved it a lot.#gross spidergirl (affectionate)......#also dior is such an interesting and complex character. like another book could have made her nicer or less fucked up
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layaart · 5 months
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Zhi from The Spider & Her Demons by sydney khoo!
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JOMP BPC - November 18th - Young Adult
enjoy a stack of some of my favourite underrated YA novels and authors. everything from contemporary to paranormal to historical to adventure. if you have any questions about any of these titles, feel free to reply or message me, I love talking underrated YA 🥰
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JOMPBPC | December 7 | Books and Lights
There's fairy lights on the cover, how could I resist?
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ya-world-challenge · 1 year
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YA Books from 🇦🇺 Australia (mostly indigenous)
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Continuing the country lists for the YA World Challenge! Firstly, there is no way I can list all the YA books from Australia - there's too many! For that reason, I'm sticking to indigenous books only for the individual books list.
If you want to find more Aussie authors, look for the #LoveOZYA tag, google some lists, browse some goodreads lists, and follow @thereadingchallengechallenge. Also check out the following anthologies to find your new favorite Aussie author:
Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories Meet Me at the Intersection
Indigenous YA The Things She's Seen, Amebelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina (alt. Catching Teller Crow) 💚🦋 The Boy From the Mish, Gary Lonesborough (alt. Ready When You Are) 💚🌈 The Upwelling, Lystra Rose 💚🦋 Tracks of the Missing, Carl Merrison & Hakea Hustler 💚🦋 Swallow the Air, Tara June Winch 💚 Ghost Bird, Lisa Fuller 💚🦋 Songs That Sound Like Blood, Jared Thomas 💚🌈 Calypso Summer, Jared Thomas 💚 Sweet Guy, Jared Thomas 💚 My Spare Heart, Jared Thomas 💚 The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Amebelin Kwaymullina (series) 💚🦋 Secrets from the Dust, George Hamilton ⌛ My Father's Shadow, Jannali Jones 💚 Too Flash, Melissa Lucashenko 💚 Killing Darcy, Melissa Lucashenko 💚 Grace Beside Me, Sue McPherson 💚 Brontide, Sue McPherson 💚 Wraith, Shane Smithers & Alex Smithers 💚🦋 Fog a Dox, Bruce Pascoe 💚 Njunjul The Sun, Meme McDonald Shauna's Great Expectations, Kathleen Loughnan
Middle Grade Bindi, Kirli Saunders 💚 Sister Heart, Sally Morgan 💚 Black Cockatoo, Carl Merrison & Hakea Hustler 💚 Ubby's Underdogs, Brenton E. McKenna (GN) 💚 Wombat, mudlark and other stories, Helen Milroy 💚 Wylah the Koorie Warrior, Jordan Gould, Richard Pritchard
Memoir & Nonfiction Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, Various Authors 💚 Remembered By Heart: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing, Various Authors 💚 Blakwork, Alison Whittaker 💚 Jandamarra & the Bunuba Resistance: A True Australian Hero, Howard Pedersen⌛
Coming of Age Becoming Kirrali Lewis, Jane Harrison 💚⌛
💚 First Nations Author (based on author's bios, may be missing data) 🛩️ Immigrant or diaspora 🏖️ non-native characters in or about the country (ex. vacation/adventure) ⌛ Historical 🦋 Fantasy or Paranormal 🌈 LGBT
If you know of more titles I could add, just leave a comment! (I hope my sources weren't too outdated)
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auslgbtqya · 8 days
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The Spider and Her Demons by sidney khoo
(2023)
From the Publisher:
Uncover an extraordinary world of demons and witches, where the ones you love can hurt you the most and hiding your true self can get you killed.
Moving and funny by turns, this is a story about what it takes to make peace with your demons – literal or otherwise. An urban fantasy spin on growing up as a second-generation immigrant, struggling under the overwhelming pressure to make others proud, while feeling trapped inside your own body.
Between surviving high school and working at her aunt’s dumpling shop, all Zhi wants is to find time for her friends . . . and make sure no one finds out she’s half spider-demon.
But when she accidentally kills and eats a man in front of the most popular girl in school, she discovers she might not be the scariest thing in the shadows.
sydney khoo is a recipient of Penguin Random House Australia’s Write It fellowship program, which aspires to find, nurture and develop unpublished writers across all genres, with a focus on underrepresented sections of our community.
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theomnilegent · 8 months
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This month, I'm participating in Booklr Reads Australian, hosted by the lovely @thereadingchallengechallenge!
I have some pretty high goals for this month but my hope is to read my way through this stack. I've already started with Ellie Marney's The Killing Code and I'm loving it so far!
The books pictured here are also all sapphic in one way or another, to stick with my own goal of reading primarily sapphic stories this year.
Happy reading everyone!
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hollymbryan · 2 years
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Blog Tour + #Review: THE KILLING CODE by Ellie Marney!
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Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours blog tour for The Killing Code by Ellie Marney! I loved this book, which you’ll see in my review, posted below along with all the details about the book.
About the Book
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title: The Killing Code author: Ellie Marney publisher: Little, Brown BFYR release date: 20 September 2022
A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer, for fans of The Enigma Game and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
Virginia, 1943: World War II is raging in Europe and on the Pacific front when Kit Sutherland is recruited to help the war effort as a codebreaker at Arlington Hall, a former girls’ college now serving as the site of a secret US Signals Intelligence facility in Virginia. But Kit is soon involved in another kind of fight: Government girls are being brutally murdered in Washington DC, and when Kit stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she is drawn into the hunt for the killer. To find the man responsible for the gruesome murders and bring him to justice, Kit joins forces with other female codebreakers at Arlington Hall—gossip queen Dottie Crockford, sharp-tongued intelligence maven Moya Kershaw, and cleverly resourceful Violet DuLac from the segregated codebreaking unit. But as the girls begin to work together and develop friendships—and romance—that they never expected, two things begin to come clear: the murderer they’re hunting is closing in on them…and Kit is hiding a dangerous secret.
Add to Goodreads: The Killing Code Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | TBD | Indigo | Indiebound
About the Author
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Ellie Marney is a New York Times bestselling and multi-award-winning crime author who has gone behind the scenes at the Westminster Mortuary in London and interviewed forensic and technical specialists around the world in pursuit of just the right details for her brand of pulse-pounding thrillers.
Her titles include The Killing Code, None Shall Sleep, the Every trilogy, No Limits, White Night and the Circus Hearts series. She has lived in Indonesia, India and Singapore, and is now based in Australia with her partner and their four sons. 
Ellie has been involved in the creation of the national campaign called #LoveOzYA to promote and advocate for Australian YA literature. She contributed to the critically-acclaimed Begin End Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, and co-runs the popular #LoveOzYAbookclub online. She also co-coordinates an online info-sharing group for Australian women self-publishers. She teaches writing and publishing through Writers Victoria, advocates for Australian women’s writing as a Stella Ambassador in schools, and is a regular speaker at festivals and events.
Connect with Ellie: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Facebook
My 5-Star Review
The Killing Code is, incredibly, my first read by Ellie Marney. I know I have an older one of hers on my shelf, but haven’t read it yet (which I will be rectifying immediately!). I was thrilled to join this tour and see what all the buzz is about.
I love historical fiction books, and if you make it feminist *and* a murder mystery? I am so in! In this book we have “code girls,” the young women who worked night and day in the codebreaking brigade during the war, coupled with a series of gruesome murders of government girls that our intrepid group decide they must solve because the police are too blinded by their prejudices. The characters are all wonderfully drawn, and the romance is absolutely *chef’s kiss*. I had butterflies at the same time Kit and Moya did! There’s also loads of information on the actual codebreaking work the girls do, and it’s obvious a *ton* of research went into this book. Marney also addresses the racism, classism, and sexism of the era in America (which we all know isn’t just historical). I love the theme of found family, which is one of my favorite tropes, especially in YA. Top it off with some great mystery-solving techniques from Kit, Moya, Dottie, and Violet, and I can honestly say there is nothing I didn’t love about this book. I suspected I knew who the killer was, but I definitely wasn’t sure until right about when it was figured out, so that was a great ending for me!
I highly recommend The Killing Code to anyone who enjoys a great mystery and/or historical fiction. I really hope you’ll pick this up, and let me know what you think!
Rating: 5 stars!
**Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher for purposes of this blog tour. This review is voluntary on my part and reflects my honest rating and review of the book.
Make sure you check out the Bookstagram tour too! I’ll have a flash giveaway in my stories for a copy of the book!
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Anybody have tips for finding Australian books on Scribd/Everand? The categories are already hard to navigate since they're actually too specific sometimes but I wish there was a #loveozya one.
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darkmatterzine · 9 months
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Suzy Zail
This is a Dark Matter Zine podcast and I’m your host Nalini Haynes. DMZ welcomes back author Suzy Zail with her new book Inkflower. Dark Matter Zine Acknowledges this recording is taking place on the unceded Country of the Bunurong Peoples’ of the Kulin Nation as Traditional Owners and Custodians of this Country. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Introducing Suzy…
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1smallwriter · 11 months
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Every day I wish there was a market for Take A Bow Noah Mitchell fanfiction because the amount of niche Victorian/Australian experiences I could write about is mad.
I too am a student in the state of Victoria. I too am a theatre kid in the state of Victoria, a theatre kid who has done a production of Chicago whilst in semi regional Victoria.
Like Christ, setting wise Tobias Madden's books are the most retable I've ever read, I've been to Ballarat, it's like, two hours away. I have pictures of every real location mentioned in Take A Bow Noah Mitchell because I when we went three months ago I made my mum do a driving tour
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aroaessidhe · 7 months
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looking forward to this australian YA about a half spiderdemon girl by an aroace author!
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layaart · 1 year
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the kids from euphoria kids by @alisonwritesthings !!! love them so much
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JOMP BPC - October 11th - Diversity
it's not diversity without disability ✨
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JOMPBPC | December 16 | Words on a Page
Baking and Christmas just go together in my mind
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ktienh · 1 year
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❓️ 🐱 OR 🐶? I do like cats but am probably more of a dog person if only because we've only ever had dogs as pets. 📔 How to Survive Your Magical Family ✒️ Clare Rhoden 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐱 How to Survive Your Magical Family is a coming of age story of Toby as he discovers himself through a life changing adventure when he was kidnapped. He is an easily likeable character and so are most supporting characters. I found the villain rather ridiculous and did not like the reason why they wanted to hurt Toby & his family. The premise of magic is actually quite interesting especially with the obligation attached to being magical. The story itself moves at fast pace so a very easy read. The ending is somewhat unfinished so high probability that there might be a sequel. My impression from cover, title, & description of book was that this was going to be such a fun read. And it was! For me, at least. My 8yo started keen especially with protag with his name but as soon as we met the villain, he dnf-ed as he found it a little scary. So I'd say this book will fit older MG/younger YA audience who aren't sensitive to violence. It's really not that violent but villain is a big bully so just beware is all. My thanks to @odysseybooks for gifting me an ecopy of this book. Thoughts are mine own. #HowtoSurviveYourMagicalFamily #ClareRhoden #Youngadult #fantasy #magic #middlegrade #loveozya #loveozmg #Aussiereads #aussieauthors #australianwomenwriters #ausbookstagram #ausbookstagramer #bookstagram #bookandflower #bookandsnack #bookandtea https://www.instagram.com/p/CjFSP0Rr-Zd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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